Advanced Messaging:Reliability and Sessions

Summary

In any advanced messaging system, you will likely find the ability to create sessions and reliable dialogues. To review:

• Sessions are sets of related messages.

• Sessions contain a unique identifier (often a GUID) to name them.

It is possible to build reliable messaging systems on top of session technol ogy. These systems usually involve the following:

• Numbering messages in a session

• Acknowledging each individual message received

• Requesting acknowledgments for specific messages